Promoting the 7 Blue Zone principles of healthy lifestyle
Living Blue Zone is a non-profit organization founded by Professor Michel Poulain, initiator of the concept of Blue Zone. Our approach is inspired by those regions of the world where people live longer, healthier lives in harmony with their environment.
About
What we do
Through our initiatives, events, and collaborations, we promote the 7 Blue Zone Principles and together weave the blue thread of a more vibrant, fairer, and above all, happier society.
The Living Blue Zone International charter
Living Blue Zone International ASBL is an association that draws on more than twenty years of research led by Prof. Michel Poulain.
Our Mission &Vision
Our mission is to support projects in Europe and around the world that are aligned with the 7 Blue Zone Principles observed by Professor Michel Poulain, in order to put health, relationships with others, and meaning in life back at the heart of our environments, encourage individual and collective choices that rebuild connections, and help individuals, companies, and communities make concrete changes to their lifestyles.
The 7 Living Blue Zone Principles
The 7 Living Blue Zone principles are drawn from over 25 years of scientific observation in the regions of the world where people live the longest in good health. Not rules to follow — an invitation to create environments where living well becomes natural.
Our community
The Living Blue Zone is a growing community — a living web connecting people and projects inspired by the Blue Zone philosophy.
Together, we weave the blue thread of a healthier and happier world.
The Living Blue Zone International charter
Living Blue Zone International ASBL is an association that draws on more than twenty years of research led by Prof. Michel Poulain.
The Blue Thread
Living Blue Zone | Corporate
Dec 11, 2025
Living Blue Zone announces Julie Saffery as its Representative for the corporate world, supporting organizations in creating more human, meaningful, and living work cultures.
Provia becomes an Official Partner of Living Blue Zone International
Provia becomes an Official Partner of Living Blue Zone International, joining a shared vision where real estate nurtures health, connection and wellbeing.
EXUVI3 joins the Living Blue Zone community as a sister company
Living Blue Zone welcomes EXUVI3 as a sister company. Discover how this integrative physiotherapy center — led by Mustapha Boulemia — blends water, movement, and human connection, echoing the Blue Zones principles identified by Michel Poulain 25 years ago.
Latin America | Florencia Zampieri Joins Living Blue Zone as Ambassador for Arts and Culture
For many years, Florencia Zampieri has explored, through art, neuroarchitecture and environmental well-being research, a question that also lies at the heart of the Living Blue Zone approach.
Who we are
Founders
Living Blue Zone partners for Latin America
Marcela Ponce
Ximena Hodge
Yean Carla Gandulfo
About Pr. Michel Poulain
Demographer, world explorer, initiator of the concept of Blue Zone, and promotor of a healthy lifestyle.
His career, both scientific and deeply human, embodies the alliance between rigor and intuition, curiosity and wisdom. A demographer by training, he has devoted his life to exploring what it means to “age well”, meeting with people who live longer, healthier lives in all corners of the world.
It was through his research on centenarians that he identified the population of Sardinia, Okinawa, Nicoya, Ikaria and more recently Martinique, as a Blue Zone with exceptional longevity.
Longevity Blue Zone
Professor Michel Poulain